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August 2, 2006

Raconteurs Get "Crazy"

Gnarls are awesome and everything, but what if they were a bit more White?

No, I'm not talkin' 'bout Legion Of Doom.

The Raconteurs -- that's Saboteurs to you Aussies -- recently covered Gnarls Barkley's Song Of Oh Six at the Warfield in San Francisco. Why? Because we "caught [them] in a very good mood."

The Raconteurs - "Crazy (Live 7-23-06)" (MP3 Link Expired)

This gives me a great Cee-Lo and DM costume idea. (You know, the one you had three Halloweens ago.)

Ray LaMontagne, Nelly Furtado, Kooks, Twilight Singers, Raconteurs ... who will go "Crazy" next? Or should everyone stop the insanity?

UPDATE: Add Butch Walker, Of Montreal, and Mates Of State to that list of coverers. Any more?

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STOP COVERING CRAZY!!!!!!!

I"M GOING FUCKING CRAZY HEARING THAT SONG BEING COVERED BY IDIOTS EVERY TWO SECONDS!!!!

Posted by: fucking crazy at 08/02/06 10:14 AM | Reply
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Of Montreal covered Crazy on Sunday

Posted by: dan at 08/02/06 10:28 AM | Reply
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not that good of a cover.
and yeah "crazy" is getting over played.
but hey it is a very catchy song.

Posted by: mrRsquared at 08/02/06 10:28 AM | Reply
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not that good of a cover.
and yeah "crazy" is getting over played.
but hey it is a very catchy song.

Posted by: mrRsquared at 08/02/06 10:28 AM | Reply
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Butch Walker's going nutzoid to this, too, on tour.

Posted by: J at 08/02/06 10:33 AM | Reply
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i cover crazy when i play guitar at home. it's mad good

Posted by: matt at 08/02/06 10:52 AM | Reply
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Someone needs to cover "Hey Ya" just to go retro.

Posted by: Alex at 08/02/06 10:53 AM | Reply
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Dulli and the Twilight Singers cover both Hey Ya and Crazy most nights!

Posted by: milwaukee at 08/02/06 10:57 AM | Reply
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Yeah, this is stupid. Go back to covering 80s new wave songs, or something.

Posted by: Jeff at 08/02/06 11:34 AM | Reply
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my two cents, I'm not too thrilled with the Ranconteurs. I'm bored of them already. Jack White is a great front man...but this side project thingy is ... meh. ...

Posted by: booboo at 08/02/06 11:35 AM | Reply
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Someone needs to cover "Hey Ya" just to go retro.

Comment of the day. Hands down.

Posted by: Tauwan at 08/02/06 6:36 PM | Reply
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the academy is...

they are playing crazy on the warped tour.

no joke

Posted by: neil at 08/02/06 7:57 PM | Reply
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i saw butch walker do this when he played toronto on monday night...it was lots of fun!

Posted by: wonderbug at 08/03/06 12:19 AM | Reply
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I've seen Kenye West kinda coverin' Crazy... but it was a crazy mix of A-Ha, Beatles and then Gnarls Barkly so may be it doesn't matter.

Posted by: Julia at 08/03/06 11:55 AM | Reply
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Just quit covering the damn song. It's not cute anymore.

Posted by: Rich at 08/03/06 11:59 AM | Reply
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Cat Power sort of covered it last week at Hiro Ballroom...she just couldn't remember all the words.

Posted by: lina at 08/03/06 12:20 PM | Reply
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quit hatin', people! i caught this show live and have been searching for this exact download since then (thanks scott!). jack & co. put on an awesome show and the crowd was really into it.

Posted by: little red at 08/03/06 2:56 PM | Reply
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Alright so the Raconteurs have all this crazy stuff going on with mtvU: Interviews, live performances, music videos. This week they were named mtvU's house band so reap the benefits and check out everything:


http://www.mtvu.com/music/house_band/

Posted by: Kennedy at 08/03/06 4:48 PM | Reply
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i heard paris hilton was supposed to cover it and that was the reason her album got pushed back... it sucks when good songs get overplayed and overcovered, but everything paris hilton touches turns to shit.

p.s. tilly and the wall covered hey ya also, but thats a great example of a song that i never want to hear of again.

Posted by: gary at 08/03/06 5:12 PM | Reply
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Not to be a hater because I was at the other Warfield show on the 22nd, but Jack singing Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang was so so so much better than this. Now that's a mp3 to track down. I have a you tube of them performing it in sweeden on my site if you want to check it out.

Posted by: kt at 08/04/06 2:06 AM | Reply
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Technically, wouldn't he have been covering Cher's "Bang Bang"?

Posted by: Sarah at 08/04/06 1:39 PM | Reply
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No, he would have been covering Sunny Bono's "Bang Bang", altho Nancy was the first person to record it.

Posted by: Daniel Curran at 08/04/06 4:15 PM | Reply
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Of Montreal's cover is the best. You should ask the readers if anyone has the mp3 hook up.

Posted by: Taylor at 08/04/06 11:18 PM | Reply
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Anyone have a working link to download this track?
Thanks in advance!

Posted by: DasBeef at 08/23/06 6:25 AM | Reply
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